3/10/2016 Four poems by Mikel KShe loves her mother I never knew mine, though lived inside her. And then lived with her for eighteen years. Memory Loss If starting to smoke pot when you are young leads to memory loss of words, like some study just said, what happens if you start smoking dope when you are old? Do you not have the words to talk to the devil or God? My mood is changing. I've got a smile on my face, but I don't know if it is going to last. Lessons I didn't learn how to hug until I got sober. I didn't learn how to love until I had children. Seems weird that you have to be taught how to pray. Seems like you should be able to talk to God any old way. I have no childhood pictures Got nothing in a will. Left home when I was eighteen. Drank like a fish from the time I was fourteen until I was thirty four. I've got a bad liver but it's not from the booze. It's from all the medication that I have been prescribed by doctors. If I had it to do all over I would do much of it differently. I would teach my mom and dad how to hug and how to say I love you. ![]() About the author: Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Atlanta, Ga. K was voted best Atlanta Poet, the last three years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper. He has a BS in English with a minor in Journalism from Georgia State University. Poetry by Mikel K has appeared in: Subtle Tea, Dead Snakes, Poeticus, drown in my own fears, poetic diversity, Zygote In My Coffee, The Blue Lake Review, Swimming With Elephants, Ceremony,Visceral Uterus, High Coupe, Fragrance Poetry Magazine, The Piker Press, Vox Poetica, Napalm and Novocaine, Ceremony, The Georgia Review, The Reeve Report, Lowlife Magazine, The Political Dogma, World Wide Hippies.com, Open Salon, and Beagle Bugle. He was a music columnist for a number of years, covering the Atlanta music scene and worked as a freelancer for The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Comments are closed.
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